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Chris Stokel-Walker

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Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance technology journalist and author of  and . 

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Technology

ChatGPT can find and fix bugs in computer code

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Technology

Artificial skin can detect nearby objects without even touching them

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Technology

Smart office chair recognises what position you are sitting in

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Technology

Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Technology

AI chatbots could hit a ceiling after 2026 as training data runs dry

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Technology

Most people who threatened to quit Twitter for Mastodon haven't left

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Technology

AIs become smarter if you tell them to think step by step

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Technology

Artificial intelligence is being asked to predict the future of AI

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Technology

Meta’s text-to-audio AI can create common sounds and generate music

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Humans

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Culture

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Humans

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Culture

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